Actually, it's approximately 30 single things, if you define "thing" to be one day. It could be even more than 30 depending on your definition of "thing". Just think of all the femtoseconds it's saving us.
As a European, I don't have a problem with American gun culture at all. Can't fire across the Atlantic, so nobody except Americans get hurt.
Americans have big guns called ICBMs (which stands for "I Carry Big Munitions"), itchy trigger fingers, and a deep suspicious of anybody with an accent. Still don't have a problem with them?
I hate to tell you this but the postman delivering your postcards doesn't just read the recipient's name and address, they sometimes read your private message as well. If you want privacy, use encryption.
"Have you ever actually restored an old HD backup? I took on the project of restoring my great-grandfather's photo archives, and though they were relatively well taken care of, every single drive was either oxidized so much it wouldn't spin, or had lost too much of its magnetic charge. The Flash drives had long since lost their info (who knew?), not to mention the DVDs that had degraded a long time ago! I sure wish he had thought to make some high-quality prints."
I have negatives, film and prints that go as far back as WWI (when my grandfather was in the trenches), much of which is still in excellent condition. Sure, some of it has deteriorated, especially the stuff that was held by relatives who didn't know how to care for it, not to mention the Polaroids from the 1970s that have all but faded from existence.
I'm as big a digital freak as anybody here, and I make backups left and right, but in the long run I'm putting my money on prints. Once you're dead and gone, there's a decreasing chance your descendants will care (or know how) to copy your 30-year-old digital media to more recent media to save them from death by digital entropy. This applies even if you mail everybody a HD or DVD: it will probably sit on a shelf and eventually succumb to failure.
Not only do photos tend to last a lot longer, they also have the advantage that you can pull them off the shelf and enjoy them any time: after dinner, during a blackout (by candle light), or when all your relatives are over--no technology or electricity needed. The experience of holding an album, turning the pages, and writing notes in the margins can't be replicated by Kodak Gallery online. If you make five copies of your photo album and give them to your relatives, chances are those albums will contribute more to your family's collective enjoyment than a few hard drives (which will only be handled by the techies in your family, if anybody).
True, prints and albums tend to get scuffed up, torn, and otherwise abused by little fingers. But that's okay, especially if you make several copies in advance. If Uncle Joe's album gets torn to shreds by his 3-year-old, you can always give him a reprint.
While negatives are easier to store reliably than digital JPEGs/RAW files, you only get one copy
If a negative is particularly valuable, you can make a copy negative (or several). True, the copies may not retain the fidelity of the original, but they'll be pretty damned close, and probably indistinguishable to all but the most trained eye.
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Actually, Mad Magazine parodied the "razor with an absurd number of blades" back in the 1980s. The Onion is late to that party.
I guess the outtakes at the end of Pixar films prove that the whole thing was live action.
Actually, it's approximately 30 single things, if you define "thing" to be one day. It could be even more than 30 depending on your definition of "thing". Just think of all the femtoseconds it's saving us.
Perhaps the cashier, seeing you walk out, realized that you had already paid for your merchandise and therefore didn't challenge you or call the cops.
Actually, using *any* available chip is obvious.
If only there was a source for free software which other people patched for you whenever a bug was found.
Scrip kiddies. Get it? Work with me here.
More like DoS.
What, sixteen fingers isn't enough for you?
Well, duh. Just scan them in the dark.
(read Tracy Kidder's nonfiction tome "Soul of a New Machine")
FTFY, Superman.
As a European, I don't have a problem with American gun culture at all. Can't fire across the Atlantic, so nobody except Americans get hurt.
Americans have big guns called ICBMs (which stands for "I Carry Big Munitions"), itchy trigger fingers, and a deep suspicious of anybody with an accent. Still don't have a problem with them?
The problem was with the MS-SQL server disk IO Wait.
MS-SQL server? That's your problem right there.
Probably antivirus programs that report their findings back to home base so the parent company can assess threats and display them to the public.
Technically, even a BSOD is still "running" in a sense.
Actually, older cards said that but ones issued more recently (1960s and later?) say no such thing.
Let's hope the orchestra doesn't suck. Otherwise, I'll take MIDI files FTW.
I hate to tell you this but the postman delivering your postcards doesn't just read the recipient's name and address, they sometimes read your private message as well. If you want privacy, use encryption.
Be very careful when removing the sticker from this laptop.
They need to seed the island with cloned dinosaur eggs and turn it into a theme park.
Perhaps, but the 19th Amendment guarantees the right to play Ms. Pac-Man.
"Have you ever actually restored an old HD backup? I took on the project of restoring my great-grandfather's photo archives, and though they were relatively well taken care of, every single drive was either oxidized so much it wouldn't spin, or had lost too much of its magnetic charge. The Flash drives had long since lost their info (who knew?), not to mention the DVDs that had degraded a long time ago! I sure wish he had thought to make some high-quality prints."
I have negatives, film and prints that go as far back as WWI (when my grandfather was in the trenches), much of which is still in excellent condition. Sure, some of it has deteriorated, especially the stuff that was held by relatives who didn't know how to care for it, not to mention the Polaroids from the 1970s that have all but faded from existence.
I'm as big a digital freak as anybody here, and I make backups left and right, but in the long run I'm putting my money on prints. Once you're dead and gone, there's a decreasing chance your descendants will care (or know how) to copy your 30-year-old digital media to more recent media to save them from death by digital entropy. This applies even if you mail everybody a HD or DVD: it will probably sit on a shelf and eventually succumb to failure.
Not only do photos tend to last a lot longer, they also have the advantage that you can pull them off the shelf and enjoy them any time: after dinner, during a blackout (by candle light), or when all your relatives are over--no technology or electricity needed. The experience of holding an album, turning the pages, and writing notes in the margins can't be replicated by Kodak Gallery online. If you make five copies of your photo album and give them to your relatives, chances are those albums will contribute more to your family's collective enjoyment than a few hard drives (which will only be handled by the techies in your family, if anybody).
True, prints and albums tend to get scuffed up, torn, and otherwise abused by little fingers. But that's okay, especially if you make several copies in advance. If Uncle Joe's album gets torn to shreds by his 3-year-old, you can always give him a reprint.
If a negative is particularly valuable, you can make a copy negative (or several). True, the copies may not retain the fidelity of the original, but they'll be pretty damned close, and probably indistinguishable to all but the most trained eye.
No need for divine maintenance; it's all ball bearings these days.
That demo could have been 100% scripted. I'd like to see "Milo" enter the Loebner contest.